Universal FireWire Audio Driver

Looking to do more with FireWire audio on Windows? CEntrance has released a free beta version of its universal audio driver. Among the features are device aggregation (which lets you use multiple FireWire audio interfaces with a single program) and multi-host capability (which lets multiple programs address a single interface). Those were among the top requests from developers at last week’s Windows Vista Audio Summit, which I’ll cover in an upcoming blog.

I hadn’t heard of CEntrance until recently, but it turns out that the company has written audio drivers for a number of manufacturers including Alesis, DigiTech, Lexicon, Mackie, and Shure. The commercial version of the universal driver ($79.95) should be out at the end of this month.